Published September 2004
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Journal article
Classical-field approximation for cold weakly interacting bosons without free parameters
- 1. Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Aleja Lotnikow 32/44, 02-668 Warsaw (Poland)
- 2. Uniwersytet w Bialymstoku, ul. Lipowa 41, 15-424 Bialystok (Poland)
- 3. Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Aleja Lotnikow 32/44, 02-668 Warsaw (Poland)
- 4. Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Aleja Lotnikow 32/44, 02-668 Warsaw (Poland)
Description
The classical-field approximation to cold weakly interacting bosons allows for a unified treatment of condensed and uncondensed parts of the system. Until now, however, the quantitative predictions were limited by a dependence of the results on a grid chosen for numerical implementation of the method. In this paper, we propose replacing this unphysical ambiguity by an additional postulate: the temperature of the gas at thermal equilibrium should be the same as that of an ideal Bose gas with the same fraction of condensed atoms. As it turns out, with this additional assumption, nearly all atoms are within the classical fields, thus the method applies to the whole system
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.033614;
- arXiv
- arXiv:cond-mat/0406630v1;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. A
- Journal Volume
- 70
- Journal Issue
- 3
- Journal Page Range
- p. 033614-033614.8
- ISSN
- 1050-2947
- CODEN
- PLRAAN
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 36087103
- Subject category
- S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ATOMS; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; BOSE-EINSTEIN GAS; BOSONS; FIELD THEORIES; FORECASTING; GRIDS; IMPLEMENTATION; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM
- Descriptors DEC
- ELECTRODES; EQUILIBRIUM
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2004 The American Physical Society